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Title: Akron Public School, Akron, Iowa
Description: The two-story brick building was built in1882, at a cost of $10,000. Additions were made in 1907 at a cost of $6,000. 1912 postmark.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14286

Title: Birdseye view, Dana, Iowa, Dana, Samuel, Bird's eye view
Description: Aerial view of Dana, Iowa, with a shoe store on the right foreground and a church bell tower in the center background. Dana was incorporated in 1907 and was named after Samuel Dana, a pioneer settler who was a godfather in the project of establishing a trading center in the early days. 1912 postmark. Number 7.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:16214

Title: Electrical storm at Alton, Iowa, Alton Star Restaurant, Alton Savings Bank
Description: Looking west at the business district during an evening storm in Alton, Iowa. Note the restaurant sign on the left and the hardware and bank signs on the right. One photo is transposed onto another. 1912 postmark. Number 1734.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14267

Title: Gym, Charles City College, Charles City, Iowa, German-English College, German-English Normal School, Gymnasium
Description: Two-story wooden building. Sponsored by the Northwest German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the German-English College was built in 1892. The name of the college was changed to Charles City College in 1894. The college fielded teams in football and basketball, included a women's basketball team in 1914. The college was open until 1914 when it merged with Morningside College in Sioux City. 1912 postmark. Number R-21634.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13843

Title: High school, Albia, Iowa, Albia High School
Description: In 1868 the independent district of Albia erected a three-story brick building at a cost of $28,000, but in 1878 it was destroyed by fire. A new structure was built in 1879 at a cost of $30,000. 1912 postmark. Number 2224.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14282

Title: Iowa State Capitol, from the south, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking south at the Iowa State Capitol with what appears to be scaffolding around the main dome in the center and on the left. The building was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256, and, and at the time, was the only five-domed capitol in the country. The dome of the capitol is gilded with tissue-paper thin sheets of pure 23-karat gold, with a protective layer sealing the gold from the weather, and the top of its finial peak is 275 feet (84 m) above the ground. From its opening during 1884 until 1924, it was the tallest building in Des Moines, and likely the entire state. It is located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Number 1.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:18759

Title: Iowa State Capitol, from the southeast, Des Moines, Iowa
Description: Looking southeast at the Iowa State Capitol with a horse and buggy in the foreground. The building was completed in 1886 at a cost of $3,296,256, and, and at the time, was the only five-domed capitol in the country. The dome of the capitol is gilded with tissue-paper thin sheets of pure 23-karat gold with a protective layer sealing the gold from the weather, and the top of its finial peak is 275 feet (84 m) above the ground. From its opening during 1884 until 1924, it was the tallest building in Des Moines, and likely the entire state. Located at 1007 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Number 4.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:18756

Title: Looking southwest on Main Street, Allerton, Iowa, Farmers National Bank, Dougherty & Merritt, Grocers
Description: Looking southwest at the Farmers National Bank, Dougherty & Merritt, Grocers, and a restaurant in downtown Allerton before the 1927 fire which destroyed six buildings. 1912 postmark. Title supplied by cataloger.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:13459

Title: New Post Office, Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Post Office
Description: Looking southwest at the two-story limestone and granite post office building designed by architect James Knox Taylor and completed in 1910 at a cost of $488,016.67. It was the first federally-sponsored post office in Des Moines specifically designed for only that purpose. Post operations had previously been on the first floor of the "Old Federal Building" at Fifth and Court Avenue (built 1870, razed 1968) beginning in 1870. Postal operations moved from the Walnut Street building in 1971 to a much larger facility at Second and University Avenue. This building is used for county offices. It is located on East Walnut Street and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 1912 postmark. Number 604.
Date Created: 1912
PID: grinnell:14679